March 8

March 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. ~ J. D. Salinger
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (born 8 March 1841)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (born 8 March 1841)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past — they never do; they're too busy. ~ Kenneth Grahame (born March 8, 1859)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh enrichment. ~ Johannes Kepler
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * We no longer have a coherent conception of ourselves, and our universe, and our relation to one another and our world. We no longer know, as the Middle Ages did, where we come from, and where we are going, or why. That is, we don't know what information is relevant, and what information is irrelevant to our lives. ~ Neil Postman
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be — that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it. Which means, among other things, that we behave in response to our judgements rather than to that to which is being judged. People and things are processes. Judgements convert them into fixed states. This is one reason that judgements are often self-fulfilling. ~ Neil Postman
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek. ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki for International Women's Day 2018.


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki, as recent remarks on responses to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.


 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * International Women's Day
 * DOB: Kenneth Grahame · Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. · Johannes Kepler · Neil Postman

The whole thing's nonsense, and conventionality, and popular thick-headedness. There's absolutely nothing to fight about, from beginning to end. And anyhow I'm not going to, so that settles it! ~ The Dragon in "The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki 23:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Nature uses as little as possible of anything. ~ Johannes Kepler (first discovered his third law of planetary motion on this day)
 * 3 Kalki 23:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 bystander (talk) 22:16, 3 March 2012 (UTC) Possibly best reserved for another day.

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity. ~ Alan Hovhaness
 * 2 Zarbon 05:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

It's gotten worse and worse, somehow, because physical science has given us more and more terrible deadly weapons, and the human spirit has been destroyed in so many cases, so what's the use of having the most powerful country in the world if we have killed the soul. It's of no use. ~ Alan Hovhaness
 * 3 Zarbon 05:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 bystander (talk) 22:16, 3 March 2012 (UTC) While the advancement of science may have provided the means for the weapons, it is man who made them. The argument against science is misplaced.

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener. ~ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
 * 3 Zarbon 05:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 07:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but would prefer an extended version which has been sourced:
 * A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener. … constantly varying the passions, he will barely quiet one before he rouses another. ~ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach


 * – (un-sourced) Ningauble 21:49, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
 * 2 Zarbon 05:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 07:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 bystander (talk) 22:16, 3 March 2012 (UTC) Eugenics is possibly one of the darkest sciences man has ever created. Heed should be paid to the quotes that bracket this one.

Of writing that is filled with mechanical and grammatical error, as compared with writing that conforms to the rules of standard edited English. Surely, we do not want to say that there is a necessary correlation between mechanical and editorial accuracy and intellectual substance. There are many books that are mechanically faultless but which contain untrue, unclear, or even nonsensical ideas. Carefully edited writing tells us, not that the writer speaks truly, but that he or she grasps... the manner in which knowledge is usually expressed. The most devastating argument against a paper that is marred by grammatical and rhetorical error is that the writer does not understand the subject. ~ Neil Postman
 * 2 but rather long. Zarbon 05:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 15:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 07:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2. Would start at "There are many..." InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one. ~ Neil Postman
 * 3 Kalki 07:44, 7 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 Zarbon 15:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 22:16, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

People come — they stay for a while, they flourish, they build — and they go. It is their way. But we remain. There were badgers here, I've been told, long before that same city ever came to be. And now there are badgers here again. We are an enduring lot, and we may move out for a time, but we wait, and are patient, and back we come. And so it will ever be. ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I feel as if I had been through something very exciting and rather terrible, and it was just over; and yet nothing particular has happened. ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

The most modest and retiring dragon in the world, if he's as big as four cart-horses and covered with blue scales, cannot keep altogether out of the public view. ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't;' I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired. ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

This is an evil world, and sometimes I begin to think that all the wickedness in it is not entirely bottled up inside the dragons... ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

There's a misunderstanding somewhere, and I want to put it right. ~ Kenneth Grahame
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent — I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world. ~ Kenneth Grahame 4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:01, 8 March 2024 (UTC) * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. ~ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


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